- Summary tasks are great for organizing project work.…They can represent project phases,…tasks performed by a group,…or some other organization scheme.…In Project, you can add a Summary task…for several existing tasks,…or you can create a new summary task…with a sub-task.…Let's say I have some existing work tasks…that I want to organize.…The first four tasks in this project,…all relate to the same thing.…So what I'm going to do,…is I'm going to drag over their Task ID cells,…to select them all.…

Then I want to insert a summary task for them.…On the Task tab, I head over to the Insert section,…and click Summary.…That inserts a new Summary task,…and it makes it the Summary task,…for those four tasks.…So now, they're indented to become sub-tasks.…The Task name cell for the Summary task,…is selected automatically,…so you can go right ahead and type…the name of the summary task.…We'll call it Document Requirements.…Notice, over in the time scale,…that the Summary task has a black bracket,…that shows the duration for all the sub-tasks beneath it.…

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2/23/2015

Master Microsoft® Project and manage your projects more efficiently and successfully. In this detailed course, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows how to use Microsoft Project to schedule and manage projects both large and small. Learn how to set up projects, add and link tasks, assign resources, fix scheduling issues, deal with resource conflicts, and track project progress. The course also covers examining project performance with views and reports, and communicating with teams by sharing projects in different formats.